First backprop-trained CNN from 1988 approved by FDA for mammography
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-08-29
Jürgen Schmidhuber highlights that the first modern backprop-trained CNN was published in 1988 by Wei Zhang et al. in Japan. Zhang brought the technology to Silicon Valley, leading to FDA PMA approval in 1998 as radiology's first AI, reading over 10 million mammograms annually in the US.
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